Duggar Bride To Other Young Brides: Your Wedding Day Belongs To Holy God Up In Heaven, Not You [View all]

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Two members of the extended Duggar clan dispensed relationship advice in a new video posted on the reality show stars’ family webpage. Sisters Anna Duggar and Priscilla Waller urged unmarried girls and women to remain chaste and pray for a godly man to ask their father for permission to begin a courtship with the intention to marry – just as they did. Waller said she waited until she was 25 to marry, which her sister suggested must have seemed like an eternity.

“Yes!” Waller said. “I’m like, ‘Oh, my sister already had two kids by this time, but it was so special to be able to begin a relationship with my husband, David, and to know that just being so open and honest with each other right at the very beginning, the very first night of our official courtship David was able to share some of his heart, his struggles, his strengths – things he envisioned us to do together.”

Now that’s she married, Waller encouraged other brides-to-be to keep their focus on God during their wedding day. “Your wedding day, the most important decision you’ll ever make is when you give your life to the Lord and letting Jesus be the captain of your life, letting him be first place and the boss, No. 1, in your life,” she said. “And the second most important decision is who to marry.
Waller said she prayed as she admired her future husband from afar as he took a leadership role in his church. Waller’s husband, David, is administrative director of the homeschooling Advanced Training Institute, whose former head resigned earlier this year over allegations of child molestation.

The Christian homeschooling organization is affiliated with the patriarchal Quiverfull movement to which the Duggar family belongs.
Duggar said she was upset during the planning of her own wedding, to Josh Duggar, that her parents made some decisions without her input, but she said God convinced her that making your own decisions is prideful. “In America, we say it is all about the bride and it is her day, but I remember God speaking to me in my heart and saying, ‘It’s not your day. It’s my day, this is the day the Lord has made,’” Duggar said. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/duggar-bride-to-other-brides-your-wedding-day-belongs-to-god-not-you/